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Roundabout 2290 B.C., when Europeans were first using
bronze and Native Americans were first growing corn, a giant volcano in
Southern Oregon blew its top, leaving a crater now filled with a lake.
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Just as Burgundy comes from Burgundy and
Champagne comes from Champagne, beer has appellations, too. Leipziger
Gose hails from Leipzig, Germany, and Berliner Weisse comes from Berlin.
Thus, Flat
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When I lived in Germany, “ein Helles” was
my fallback order, and I spent many afternoons in leafy beer gardens
sipping at half-liters while squeezing excessive mustard onto my
bratwurst. But
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We eyed the bottle with distrust:
marionberry whiskey. Obviously a gimmicky effort to out-local and
out-quirk the next distillery on the row. And poorly directed—I
generally prefer whiskey no
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I wish this weekend’s Oregon Brewers Festival were in late
September. While sunshine is all but guaranteed in late July, the heat
tends to push crowds to lawn-mower beers, which is why so many b
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I had big plans for Portland Sangria, the new bagged wine from Enso Urban Winery. I was hoping, I suppose, for an alcoholic warm-weather counterpart to Oregon Chai. I imagined it as a delicious, light
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Finnriver’s Habanero Cider is more like pepper spray than
hot sauce. That is to say, the danger of pain comes from inhaling, not
drinking. Finnriver Cidery, which sits on Washington’s Olympic
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Fort George’s Tender Loving Empire Northwest Pale Ale is
named after the venerable Portland indie-pop record label and boutique,
and it drinks the way many of the bands on the label sound: pleas
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The boundaries between beer and cider are blurring. Cidermakers now add hops to their libations; brewers pour apple juice into their beer (or, in the case of Redd’s Apple Ale, made by MillerCoors, �
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Geography is destiny, Napoleon said. The emperor wasn’t talking specifically about booze, but he could have been.
Europe is almost
evenly split into wine and beer. South of the Alps, where fruit
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